CABLE.
LATEST WAR NEWS
LONDON
June 9. The passage of the Danube is expected to be made at Nicopolis. Tire main Turkish army has encamped at ITassan Kalid.
June 11
Berlin papers consider that a dissolution ol the French Chamber would moan the triumph of the Ultramontanists and result in a general outbreak of hostilities in Europe.
The Csuir is at Bucharest. The Russian right wing in Wullaclua is falling’ back on Putinei. The Turks from Batoum arc operating in the Traus-caucasian provinces of Russia.
Official Despatches state that the attempted passage of the Danube by the Russians at Nicopolis was repulsed. The Russian Press is indignant at the notion that Russia would be satisfied with the conclusion of peace without solid guarantees being given by Turkey for the better government of Christian subjects. The Russians are massing troops opposite Rustclmck and Nicopolis. The Turkish Chamber has agreed to to a forced loan of five millions sterling. The Turks have been successful everywhere in Montenegro. SINGAPORE. June 13i Mukhtav Pascha’s Despatches report the Russians as retiring between Kars and Eracoum. Olti has been abandoned and retaken by the Qkirks, The Russian Government has ordered a military, levy of 260,000 men. A general rising at Candia is expected. Insurrectionary agitations arc rife at Epirus and Thessaly.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 228, 16 June 1877, Page 2
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